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Definition of Driveller
1. Noun. Someone whose talk is trivial drivel.
Generic synonyms: Speaker, Talker, Utterer, Verbaliser, Verbalizer
Derivative terms: Jabber
2. Noun. A person who dribbles. "That baby is a dribbler; he needs a bib"
Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Derivative terms: Dribble, Drivel, Drool, Slobber
Definition of Driveller
1. Noun. Someone who drivels. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Driveller
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Driveller
Literary usage of Driveller
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of James Smetham by James Smetham (1892)
"... and the City man wants to know what the driveller is blubbering about, and
asks for a vote for the ward of ..."
2. A Journey Round the Library of a Bibliomaniac: Or, Cento of Notes and by William Davis (1821)
"Bunyan, who has been mentioned amongst the least and lowest of our writers, and
even ridiculed as a driveller by those who have never read him, ..."
3. Emilius, Or, An Essay on Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1763)
"... to compare none at all, is the mark of a driveller. The greater or lefler
aptitude to compare ..."
4. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"driveller; idle talker; one who RABAIS, sm reduction in price. IL ya un rabais
considerable, the prices are much reduced—much lowered. ..."